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    Posted on May 16, 2019 by Gail


    Damerow — 4 Comments

    Do
    Roosters
    Have a
    Penis?
    Like the males of 97 percent of
    all bird species, a rooster does
    not have a penis. An incubated
    egg that will become a rooster
    starts to develop a penis, but
    early in the second week of
    embryonic development, a cell
    death protein called Bmp4
    cloaks the incipient penis,
    causing it to stop developing
    and instead remain as a
    rudimentary nub.
     
    So how do
    chicken
    eggs get
    fertilized?
    The rooster and hen kiss!
     
    But not with their beaks.
     
    The rooster injects sperm into
    a hen by pressing his vent
    against hers in a process
    known as the cloacal kiss. The
    cloaca is the chamber just
    inside the vent where the
    digestive, urinary, and
    reproductive tracts end.
     
    The rooster’s cloaca contains
    two tiny nipples (papillae) at
    the ends of the two ducts that
    transport semen from the
    rooster’s testes. The testes are
    hidden inside the rooster, near
    his backbone, and look like a
    pair of large white beans. To
    transfer semen into a hen, the
    two cloacal papillae serve as
    the rooster’s mating organs.
     
    During a cloacal kiss, the hen
    squats. The rooster does a
    balancing act on her back, and
    when everything is working
    right, the hen lifts her tail up
    and to one side, while the
    rooster bends his tail
    downward for a quick kiss.
     
    A rooster can control how
    much semen he releases each
    time, allowing him to reserve
    some for another hen. The
    rooster can thus spread his
    genes among a greater number
    of hens.
     
    A hen has some say in whether
    or not she’s willing to be kissed
    by a particular rooster. She can
    run away, or simply fail to
    squat. Roosters, being larger
    and stronger, sometimes win
    anyway. But a hen can have the
    last laugh, by simply squirting
    out the semen of a rooster that
    doesn’t meet her approval.
     
    Assuming the hen is willing to
    lay eggs fertilized by an
    amorous rooster, she stores
    his semen in her sperm glands,
    consisting of several storage
    tubules located at the juncture
    of the uterus and vagina. Fat
    droplets transferred from the
    hen’s cells to the sperm cells
    ensure the rooster’s sperm
    remains viable for several days.
    When a hen lays an egg, the
    hormone progesterone triggers
    the release of some of the
    stored sperm to fertilize the
    next egg she will lay. Like tiny
    tadpoles, released sperm
    wiggle up the oviduct to reach
    the next developing yolk. In this
    way, multiple eggs can be
    fertilized by a single mating,
    until the sperm is either used
    up or loses viability.
     
    With 19 billion chickens in the
    world we have all the proof we
    need that roosters have no
    problem procreating despite
    their lack of a penis.
     
    And that’s today’s news from
    the Cackle Coop.
     
    Gail Damerow, author, The
    Chicken Health Handbook
     
    Category: Chicken Facts
    Tags: Chicken Reproduction
    Reproduction,
    Cloacal Kiss
    Kiss, Rooster Anatomy

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    4 thoughts
    on “Do
    Roosters
    Have a
    Penis?”
    Molly
    August 27, 2020

    Good stu!. Very


    informative. Hubby still
    insists cockerels have
    penis ?

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    Rick
    March 24, 2020

    No way! Call me a big fat


    chicken but I’m
    absolutely chock-a-block
    full of amazement at the
    cloaca kiss! Bit of
    smooching, love that for
    chickens. Chick-yeah! I
    was telling someone
    that chickens
    reproduced this way
    and she said ‘who the
    hell are you, get out of
    my house.’

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    Judy Shubert
    March 23, 2020

    Thanks for sharing this!!


    It’s very helpful I had no
    idea about the rooster’s
    sexual encounters… I
    appreciate it

    Log in to Reply 

    Roman
    December 3, 2019

    Thank you for explaining


    this interesting way
    chickens reproduce. I
    was telling my wife that
    chickens reproduced
    this way and she didn’t
    believe me.

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